A Constellation of Hearts

Animal Sincerity, Human Resonance, Grief to Dreaming + Biodiverse Imagination

In my conversations with wild animals, they often enjoy the concept of ‘constellation’ to describe: a collection of hearts, ideas, dreams, dreamers or even physical places. A web woven with translucent strands of connection amongst intersecting points aglow. They also love the present, dwell within it so excellently. Thus where we shall begin: a prick of light in such a wonderful moment connecting all who will read this. A speck of stillness to be with the wonder of ourselves and the animals (ones we love and ones we’ve never even met). 

My favorite things start small, born from imagination yet rooted, woven into warm earth. The animals are my most impeccable teacher in this regard, keeping me honest and aligned with the dream I came here to dream; how all the sinews of our many desires continuously braid together and form the whole heart of what guides a person. Yet we may encounter challenge in how to prepare the needle with the entwined thread of our most hallowed imaginings. 

Many dreams are born from a lack we identify, feel or experience. There is tremendous grief courageous feelers can feel regarding both energetic and planetary imbalances. It may be overwhelming at times to both wade through the swamp of something and sense your direction is true (stars above so helpful in swamps). Not to mention the myriad of human stories told that forgo a bright future and refuse to see our kind as sensitive beings full of potential. Even the stories that are meant to mobilize us can often hold us back in the very cycles we are trying to transcend. 

Animals speak in the most sincere way (like trees feel), cushioned in such incredible frequencies of love and lineages of lived wisdom (the ones we are remembering and they example to us). While helping us understand a bigger picture within our capacity to do so, often recontextualizing some things to expand our perception and ability to receive, then knowingly gift just what is the next course of action. All in good time, all in right order; the perfect dose of animal medicine for the journey ahead. 

I am always deepening into the concept and potential of animal medicine. Just like plants have medicinal properties that nourish and heal, the animal kingdom offers that to us on an energetic level (with physical implications). We can draw from the wisdom of an animal’s medicinal way of being to inform our own journey of balance. They know the way, help us connect with the parts of ourselves who know, too. So that we may experience our own medicine more acutely and share it with others. 

I always tune into the animals. Especially the ‘noisier’ or ‘darker’ the world feels, we require the corresponding wisdom of someone who lives in a cave (cricket), speaks in song (whale), travels by night (owl). Each animal has an expertise, carries a unique frequency and is connected to their heart/collective heart in such a wonderful way. We can’t help but glean insight and feel the foundation of reciprocity forming beneath our feet when we relax into a more holistic network of support. 

And that loops us back to the idea of constellation; hearts aglow. Discovering parts of ourselves remembered; threading lines of connection between light revealing then naming it. Our own candle mingling with the resonance of increasingly more interspecies and interrealm folk, too. To mirror not only the biodiversity of life we hope to cultivate below, but the same abundance reflected above and within. An inner world harmonizing with a physical world we dream for. An intuitive redirect of how our river flows.